Monday, August 11, 2008

While Scooter B. was watching Olympic basketball…

Now it appears that Russia has launched a two front full scale invasion that now threatens Tbilisi.

Blink again.

Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili has signed an internationally brokered cease-fire proposal that is on the way to Russia through French Minister Bernard Kouchner and Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb, who are available to get their diplomacy on despite the fact that both France and Finland are competing in the Olympics.

Yet ministers from both of those countries were able to drag themselves away from the coverage and get their diplomacy on because people are dying and a key region is tumbling into occupation.

Amazing!

Ugh.

This is serious as hell...the human toll, the regional consequences and the potential for this border conflict to draw allies in and escalate swiftly into something far worse…gulp...yeah, this shit is serious and should be addressed as such.

And I can’t help but wonder what, if any, pull we have with President Medvedev of Russia.

The corpo-fascist administration did have time today to "relax" the endangered species act. They are very busy. . . give them a break. . . they've got cash to hoard.This is a cluster fuck all around. Georgia invades the border areas of Russia and then starts whining because Russia invades them. Bullshit. If you invade my space killing my people, I'm gonna attack you back hard and fast in a way that I believe leaves you incapable of invading my space again. both sides have been playing bullshit games for too long and thios is where it has gotten them.

Glenn Greenwald's interview with Charles King , professor of international studies, at Georgetown , here http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/, if interested in more info. Also a link to his op-ed piece in CSM.